Azure has announced Azure Arc, which is designed to enable new hybrid scenarios for customers by bringing the company’s services and management to any infrastructure. Specifically, it brings Azure management capabilities to Linux and Windows servers and Kubernetes clusters on any infrastructure across on-premises, multi-cloud and edge.

Azure has announced Azure Synapse Analytics, which is described as a limitless analytics service that combines enterprise data warehousing with Big Data analytics to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs. With it, organizations can query data on their own terms at scale via serverless on-demand or provisioned resources.

Today, at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced a slew of new features and updates to the company’s Power Platform. The new features include the addition of Robotic process automation (RPA) added to Power Automate (previously named Microsoft Flow) and an even lower code approach to creating automated processes called Power Virtual Agents.

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that is combining its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning-driven HPE Primera storage platform with the composability in HPE Synergy and HPE Composable Rack. This integration is all around helping its customers propel their businesses forward by helping them rapidly develop applications and innovations. According to HPE, this unique

Nasuni announced that it plans to update its platform at least one more time before the end of the year. They just released a set of upgrades at the end of September, so this is an impressively fast update tempo. The new update will include support for Google Cloud Storage (GCS), improved cloud migration tools,

Veeam announced that it will be partnering with NetApp on new integrations for its Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO). These integrations will be part of the upcoming release of VAO version 3. The two companies state that with VAO v3, users will have full recovery orchestration for NetApp ONTAP Snapshots including automated testing and reports.

One of the biggest challenges that small and medium business (SMB) and remote offices/branch offices (ROBO) face is how to ensure business continuity if their primary site goes down. Typically, vendors and integrators suggest that they setup a secondary site that mirrors business critical applications to and/or send backups to a secure location so they

Today Intel released its latest processor family, the Intel Xeon E-2200 processors. This new CPU family is aimed at entry-level servers for small to medium businesses. Intel states that the E-2200 family can also enhance cloud security for service providers. 

QNAP Systems, Inc. launched its new benchmark automation solution, Qmiix. Qmiix is an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution that is designed to help users to automate workflows that require interactions between multiple applications on different platforms. This is a good tool for those that have repetitive tasks on different platforms that need automated.